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Technical Project Manager

TekWissen LLC

Seattle, WA

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$82.14–$87.85
SKILLS
Agile Modeling, Atlassian JIRA, Authentication, Backlog Prioritization, Business Administration, Calendar Management, Campaigns, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Consulting, Delivery Management, Diversity, Embedded Systems, Event Management, Financial Services, Identity Data Management, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Internet Security, Kanban, Leadership, MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Access Database, Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft Windows Azure, Onboarding, PCI-DSS, Performance Metrics, Phishing, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Demonstration, Program Planning, Project Management Certification, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Software, Project Planning, Project/Program Management, RAID Storage, Remote Access, Reporting Dashboards, Retail, Risk, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Scrum Project Management and Software Development, Sprint Planning, Statement of Work (SOW), Status Reports, Technical Leadership, Technical Support, Time Management, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Vendor/Supplier Management, Vendor/Supplier Selection, Workforce Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
1 day ago
Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is to one of Our clients Who is a fashion specialty retailer founded on a simple idea: offer each customer the best possible service, quality, value, and selection. We are looking for an individual to provide specialized Information Technology support for our strategic business partners within the client Corporate Center.
Job Title: Technical Project Manager
Location: Seattle, WA 98101
Duration:2 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type:Onsite
Job Description:
About the Role:
  • Client s Technology division is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to drive high-impact Identity Security initiatives across our enterprise IAM landscape.
  • This contingent role sits within the Identity Security organization and partners closely with engineering, architecture, compliance, and business teams to deliver complex programs on time, within scope, and in alignment with our security strategy.
  • You will lead delivery across one or more workstreams spanning privileged access management, identity governance, directory services modernization, and phishing-resistant authentication.
  • This is a hands-on project management role that requires both technical depth in identity and access management platforms and strong stakeholder communication across executive, engineering, and compliance audiences.
Key Responsibilities:
Program & Delivery Management:
  • Own end-to-end program planning, scheduling, and execution for one or more identity security workstreams.
  • Develop and maintain detailed project plans, dependency maps, risk registers, and RAID logs.
  • Lead sprint planning, PI Planning events, and backlog grooming in an SAFe/Agile delivery model.
  • Facilitate cross-team ceremonies including standups, demos, retrospectives, and steering committee reviews.
  • Track and report on program health, milestones, and KPIs to senior leadership and the CISO organization.
  • Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve blockers, risks, and inter-workstream dependencies.
Identity Security Domain Work:
  • Drive delivery of Privileged Access Management (PAM) programs using BeyondTrust Password Safe, Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM), and Privileged Remote Access (PRA).
  • Support initiatives related to Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) including conditional access policy governance, hybrid identity, and lifecycle management.
  • Partner with IGA teams on SailPoint IdentityNow configuration, access certification campaigns, and role engineering.
  • Coordinate Okta identity platform hardening, including phishing-resistant MFA (FastPass, FIDO2/WebAuthn), device assurance policies, and authenticator enrollment controls.
  • Translate technical identity requirements into workable project scope, acceptance criteria, and delivery milestones.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for program status across technology, security, compliance, and business stakeholders.
  • Prepare and deliver executive-ready status reports, steering committee decks, and program dashboards.
  • Partner with Vendor Management and Procurement on contingent resource onboarding and statement of work management.
  • Coordinate with audit and compliance teams (SOX, PCI-DSS, NIST) to ensure delivery timelines support control testing windows.
Skills:
Required Qualifications:
  • 7+ years of technical project or program management experience in enterprise IT or cybersecurity environments.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience managing IAM or cybersecurity programs not just general IT infrastructure projects.
  • Direct experience with one or more of the following platforms: BeyondTrust (Password Safe, EPM, PRA), Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, SailPoint IdentityNow or IIQ, Okta.
  • Proficiency with agile frameworks including SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban; experience facilitating PI Planning events preferred.
  • Strong command of project management tooling: Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, or equivalent.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate technical complexity for executive audiences.
  • Experience working in a large, matrixed enterprise environment with distributed delivery teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • PMP, PgMP, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), or equivalent project management certification.
  • Experience managing PAM programs in a retail, financial services, or regulated industry.
  • Familiarity with NIST 800-63, Zero Trust architecture principles, or CIS Controls.
  • Background coordinating identity security initiatives that intersect with SOX, PCI-DSS, or similar compliance frameworks.
  • Prior experience as a contingent worker embedded within a large enterprise technology organization.
Work Environment & Expectations:
  • This is a hybrid role based at client s Seattle headquarters.
  • Onsite presence of 4 days per week is expected for team collaboration, stakeholder meetings, and program ceremonies.
  • Client is committed to building an inclusive workplace.
  • We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Education:
Education Requirements:
  • Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Business Administration, or a related field required.
  • Master s degree (MBA, MS in Information Security, or related discipline) preferred for candidates with fewer than 10 years of experience.
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience considered: candidates with an Associate s degree plus 10+ years of directly relevant IAM/cybersecurity program management experience will be evaluated on merit.
  • Project management certification (PMP, PgMP) or agile certification (SAFe SPC, CSM) may substitute for one year of the required experience.
  • Relevant vendor certifications (e.g., BeyondTrust Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate, SailPoint Certified IdentityNow Engineer, Okta Certified Administrator) are a plus and may offset formal degree requirements at hiring manager discretion.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/